And so with the doors firmly shut and the last of the interviews trickling out, E3 2013 goes down as a solid but unsurprising one for Nintendo - largely because a lot of potential game news had already been let out of the bag in recent Nintendo Directs.

As for the challenge, we had a pretty good showing! Of the 33 entries, 5 scored higher than last year's winner and we have a new record low! Oh yeah!

First up, here are the predictions that came true:

A) Most Likely : 2pts

01) Iwata, Shibata and Reggie all present in a Nintendo Direct02) New 3D Mario Platformer gets a name and a 2013 release03) Smash Bros. 4 screens or artwork are shown04) Mario Kart U trailer05) New footage of Monolithsoft's X06) Bayonetta 2 trailer07) First footage of The Wind Waker HD08) New video of Pokemon X/Y09) New color/s for 3DS10) The new 3D Mario platformer is not Mario Galaxy 3

B) Maybe : 4pts01) Teaser video of Smash Bros. 402) Mario Kart U confirmed for 201303) New Nintendo/3rd party game collaboration04) Dragon Quest VII coming to the West05) Wind Waker HD confirmed for 201306) Good Feel show a new trailer for Yarn Yoshi07) A new Wii U bundle for the holidays08) New system announced for the Virtual Console (U/3DS)09) Monolithsoft's 3DS game revealed10) Treasure's 3DS game revealed

C) I guess it's possible... : 6 pts

01) Retro Studio's game is revealed02) One or more Smash Bros.4 newcomers are shown03) Smash Bros. 4 gets a firm release date04) Bayonetta 2 for 201305) Some kind of teaser or artwork shown for Zelda U06) A new Near Field Communication game announced for Wii U07) Majora's Mask remake for 3DS08) Exclusive Wii U game from Capcom, Level-5, Mistwalker or Square-Enix09) Wii Sports U announced10) Earthbound collection for 3DS

- The maximum possible score this year was 86 points and the worst possible was -484, so if you're in the middle of that don't feel too bad.

- The Eternal Optimist award goes to Marsh for making the most predictions: 26

- The wrong answer that was picked most often was: "Good Feel show a new trailer for Yarn Yoshi"- 27 times. Also "Iwata, Reggie and Shibata all present" was picked 22 times. Unfortunately the Global President decided to hog the limelight this year.

- The correct answer we missed the most was: "One or more Smash Bros. 4 newcomers are shown" although it was still picked 21 times! Which illustrates how few freak events there were this year.

- The most predictably correct answer turned out to be "First footage of The Wind Waker HD", it was the one thing that -everyone- guessed.

- The most predictably wrong answers were D3, 7 and 10. "New model of 3DS", "HD remake of Metroid Prime" and "Skies of Arcadia 2, Shenmue 3 or Panzer Dragoon exclusive", each of which only one person thought would happen.

- If we haven't already learned this, the conservative approach was the winning one. The people who made the fewest predictions scored best again... but you never know what will happen next year!

@Zero, we've had very similar scores up until now. This year I was curious what it'd be like to play the safest possible game, stick to what Nintendo had promised and nothing more. I actually thought the bonus question would determine the winner and that there would be more surprises to shake things up. Hooray for predictable conference?

Prudence isn't as much fun. Next year I'll be back into negative double figures!

I can see more people played it safe this year... I think I won with 14pts last year and if I got the new Retro/IP question right, I still wouldn't have broken into the top 4. Quite an impressive score for the podium players!

Yeah I played pretty conservatively. I'm still shocked that Mario Kart for 2013 didn't come true. I was so sure of that, especially in light of Iwata's comments on Mario Kart 7. I think it was in an Iwata Asks where he said that he basically pushed the panic button when the 3DS wasn't selling well and put addition resources at Mario Kart 7 to make sure it'll make it by the holiday season. So I figured it'll be a repeat with Mario Kart 8.